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Jouni Y.	PETITIONS AND ACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT November 20, 2006 10:19 AM http://www.organicconsumers.org/perchlorate.htm#pesticide Perchlorates: REPORT ON WIDESPREAD ROCKET FUEL POLLUTION IN NATION'S FOOD AND WATER CLICK TO SEND INSTANT LETTER TO YOUR SENATORS! Perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in solid rocket fuel, has leaked from military bases and defense and aerospace contractors' plants in at least 22 states, contaminating drinking water for millions of Americans. The Pentagon is urging Congress to pass a new law that would allow the military to freely violate a host of environmental regulations. Entitled "The Readiness and Range Preservation Initiative," the legislation would allow military facilities to ignore laws like the Clean Air Act. The Pentagon claims environmental regulations are a threat to national security, since they restrict the military. To date, only one Senator has had the backbone to propose legislation that would hold the military (and other perchlorate polluters) responsible for this excessive pollution of the U.S. food and water supply. Senator Feinstein (CA) has proposed legislation that would spend $200 million to identify and clean up perchlorate sources and provide grants for technologies to clean up existing contamination, while holding perchlorate polluters responsible for cleanup efforts. "It is imperative that we reduce the perchlorate in our drinking water and protect Californians, especially pregnant women, the unborn, infants, and young children from this threat to their health," said Feinstein of the bill. Dear Senator, I'm writing to ask you to support Senator Feinstein's bill that would provide $200 million to identify and clean up perchlorate sources and provide grants for technologies to clean up existing contamination. The bill would also seek a new federal limit for perchlorate in drinking water and hold perchlorate polluters responsible for cleanup efforts. http://www.organicconsumers.org/perchlorate.htm#pesticide [ send green star]
Jouni Y.	action alert for rainforests April 18, 2007 10:49 PM Please, sign and forward more groups. thank you!!! http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=samling Action Alert: Stop Malaysian Samling Group - Global Leaders in Rainforest Destruction Destroyer of ancient rainforests and indigenous livelihoods from Malaysia to Guyana now a publicly listed company that along with its financiers is facing renewed international protest By Rainforest Portal <http://www.rainforestportal.org>, a project of Ecological Internet - April 18, 2007 Hornbill from Malaysian rainforests <http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=Samling> Caption: /Samling destroys rainforests and indigenous cultures/ (link) <http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=Samling> Indigenous people living in tropical rainforests in Malaysia and Guyana are stepping up the global campaign against the Samling group, one of Malaysia's leading timber companies, and gravest threat to rainforests and their inhabitants worldwide. The Samling Group holds 1.6 million hectares of tropical rainforest concessions in Guyana and 1.4 million hectares in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. On the recent occasion of its public listing at the Hong Kong stock exchange, 37 organizations from 18 countries asked investors and banks to shun the company for its failure to comply with basic environmental and social standards. Samling and the Malaysian government are leaders in the destruction of he Earth's rainforests and must be stopped. In Malaysia, nomadic and semi-nomadic Penan communities living on the Limbang river in the North of the state of Sarawak have launched an appeal to the international public urging Credit Suisse, HSBC and Macquarie Securities, the three banks who have sponsored Samling´s recent public listing, to stop supporting the timber giant. "Samling is destroying our last remaining rainforest in the Upper Limbang", headman Awing Tubai said on behalf of the Penan communities. "We need clean water for drinking and fishing and intact forests where we can gather our food and other forest products." Meanwhile, other Penan communities from the Upper Baram region of Sarawak report renewed police action on their native lands. Officers of the Sarawak Forestry Corporation and a special police force unit removed a long-standing Penan logging road blockade near Long Benali, a community located at a strategic entry point to one of Sarawak’s last contiguous primary rainforest areas. Timber company workers of Samling were present at the site, as the Malaysian government and police did their bidding to open new rainforests to industrial logging. The police action took place in an area "certified" by the Malaysian Timber Certification Council. In the South American state of Guyana, the Akawini Amerindian Village has asked the Government to help end an agreement with a Samling-subsidiary. Their council has said that the villagers were threatened with court action unless they signed an agreement allowing logging on their lands by Guyanese Samling subsidiary Barama Co. Ltd. "As soon as the agreement was signed we saw heavy duty machinery such as bulldozers, logging trucks and excavators come onto our village lands." The Amerindians fear the destruction and loss of their forest resources through the Samling subsidiary's activities that they were coerced into approving. Barama's Forest Stewardship Council certification partially paid for by WWF on 570,000 hectares of tropical forest was suspended because of such landowner swindles in the Northwest Region of Guyana, further making a mockery of "certification" of sustainable ancient rainforest logging. Please send the email below targeting the banks funding Samling; Credit Suisse, HSBC and Macquaries Securities Ltd., asking them for a public statement to withdraw their support to Samling and refund of IPO profits. Let these rainforest destroying banks, Malaysian tourism and business, and Malaysian government know that globally all remaining large and intact rainforests must be permanently protected from industrial development; and they can expect boycotts and further protests should the barbarous Malaysian industrial timber industry not be disbanded. http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=samling [ send green star]
Nelly P.	Action Alert April 19, 2007 4:39 AM Signed. Thanks. [ send green star] [ accepted]
Jouni Y.	Anybody else endorsing? April 30, 2007 5:23 AM Nelly, thanks! Anybody else endorsing? [ send green star]
Micheline B.	Rainforest portal on EI May 24, 2007 2:40 PM I endorse all actions by Ecological Internet, great work these guys are doing! Micheline. [ send green star] [ accepted]
ANTHONY G.	Please Help Support a BAN on Primate Testing in Europe August 22, 2007 10:41 PM To: All European Citizens who care about Animals This is a critical time. The European Commission (EC) is currently revising the law - known as Directive 86/609 - that governs animal experiments across Europe. 86/609 is a hugely powerful Directive that has power of life and death over millions of animals across the continent - setting out minimum standards for how and whether animals can be used in experiments. A staggering ten million animals are used in outdated and wasteful experiments in European laboratories every year. The Directive is supposed to ensure “the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes” but the huge numbers show that it’s just not doing that. There is a real possibility that with enough support the EC will ban all primate tests as part of the revised law. Written Declaration 40/2007 urges the European Parliament to use the revision process of Directive 86/609/EC as an opportunity to establish a timetable for replacing the use of all primates in scientific experiments with alternatives. The Declaration will fall on 7th September and the signatures of half the MEPs in the Parliament is needed by then. If you care about animals visit the following website to urge them to sign Written Declaration 40/2007. http://www.navs.org.uk/take_action/39/0/885/ If you want to do more:- Please write to the European Commission and ask them to ban primate tests. To help, a prepared letter can be found at http://www.eceae.org/saveprimates/en/action.html The address is:- Mr. Stavros Dimas Commissioner for Environment European Commission B-1049, Brussels, Belgium Please tell all your friends and family to do the same. For information on Alternatives to Animal Testing and why they work visit the Dr Hadwen Trust http://www.drhadwentrust.org/ For further information:- http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2987 http://www.buav.org Thank You Tony, Nottingham, England [ send green star] [ accepted]
Giasemi -.	CAMPAIGN FOR THE GREEK FORESTS AND WILD ANIMALS September 04, 2007 12:18 PM As you may be aware, the worst forest fire in more than a decade ravaged some 3,000 hectares of Mount Parnitha, one of the few oases of green in Attica's concrete jungle. Mount Parnitha was crucial for the climate of the city. More than 300 fires have broken out in Greece at the end of June 2007, fueling speculation that some were the work of arsonists. For more information read also the BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6252676.stm We kindly request from you as citizens of this World to: 1. JOIN our PROTEST against the burning of Greek forests and their wild life; Sign petition: protect forests in Greece HERE http://www.petitiononline.com/grfires/petition.html 2. DEMAND from your Embassies in Greece to push the Greek Government for action; 3. PROTEST at the Greek Embassy in your country; 4. DEMAND from the Greek Government to take responsibility for their CRIMINAL NEGLECT and lack of action. HOW TO HELP US: Please take the time to write a letter or send an email to: 1. ASK the Greek Government and the Greek Parliament to assume their responsibilities for the criminal failure to put the fires down in a timely manner; 2. DEMAND from the Greek Government and the Greek Parliament to organise ASAP an effective action plan to stop other similar destructions and to apply reforestation for the destroyed areas and care for the wild life that has survived. 3. Sign the petition : protect Forests in Greece here >> http://www.petitiononline.com/grfires/petition.html Please send your letters/emails to the Greek National Tourism Offices in your country, the Greek Embassies in your country, your Embassies in Greece, the Greek Government and the European Parliament. Please forward our cry for help to e-lists and fora that care for animals and the environment. Contact Addresses: Greek Prime Minister: info@primeminister.gr Greek Parliament: info@parliament.gr Greek Ministry of Justice: grammatia@justice.gov.gr Greek Ministry of Public Order: elasgrty@mopo.gr Greek Ministry of Tourism: info@mintour.gr Greek political parties: Nea Dimokratia: ndpress@nd.gr PASOK: pasok@pasok.gr KKE: mailbox@kke.gr Sunaspismos: typou@syn.gr The European Parliament UK Offices: London: eplondon@europarl.eu.int Edinburgh: epedinburgh@europarl.eu.int The European Parliament Brussels Offices: epbrussels@europarl.europa.eu Greek National Tourism Offices addresses: http://www.gnto.gr/pages.php?langID=2&pageID=80 Foreign Embassies and Consulates Directory in Greece: http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassies-in/Greece#1010 Greek Embassies and Consulates abroad: http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Services/Directory/Greek+Missions+Abroad/ A HEARTFELT THANK you for your support Have your say to European Policies. Dear Sir/ Madam: I am writing to you in order to express my anger at the recent forest fires in Greece. Three NATURA 2000 areas were gravely affected ( GR1420006, GR1430001 and GR3000001 , or Oros Mavrovouni, Oros Pilio and Paraktia Thalassia Zoni and Oros Parnitha respectively). Specialists agree that damage is almost irreversible. According to the local press, the areas were not properly monitored, and the local authorities are woefully unprepared to deal with the disaster or its aftermath. As you have repeatedly stressed , the responsibility for the implementation of European environmental legislation lies mainly with the member states. However, it is also the Commission's responsibility to ensure that Community law is implemented and applied correctly. In addition, you have also recognized the unique cultural and ecological value of Mediterannean nature (e.g., by launching initiatives such as Horizon 2020), as well as its vulnerability to climate change (e.g., in the recent technical report No 7/2005 "Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Europe"). Therefore, I would like to draw your attention to the inability and/or unwillingness of Greek authorities to effectively enforce the relevant EU legislation (such as the Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora), and encourage you to consider the possibility of instigating infringement proceedings against Greece. Yours faithfully, .... [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mr T G.	Improve Standards of Animal Welfare in European Laboratories November 11, 2007 3:47 PM TO: All People Who Care The European Commission is currently reviewing Directive 86/609/EEC, which sets out the rules for animal experimentation across the whole of Europe. There is still time to make a difference to the final draft. A new European Chemical Testing Policy called REACH proposes to Test 30,000 Chemicals of every kind - from those used in industrial processes to the ingredients of consumer products - on Millions of animals from mice to fish to dogs, causing untold suffering. This Directive should help these animals while still improving standards. The European Commission itself acknowledges that non-animal replacements "...have the potential to provide robust information through quality-controlled, state-of-the-art tests which are faster and less cost-intensive than classical animal-based tests". It has launched a Community Action Plan for the Protection and Welfare of Animals. This explicitly states "The final aim is to replace animal experiments with methods not entailing the use of an animal." It is in all our interest that Animal Testing is replaced with Alternatives based on Human Biology not Animals. For evidence that superior Alternative Research & Testing is replacing Animal Testing visit http://www.drhadwentrust.org/ Please sign "Replace all Animal Experiments in Europe" http://www.endeuanimaltests.org/ Now political pressure is needed to encourage EU legislators to do everything they can to maximise non-animal replacement efforts. Contact your MEPs and urge them to use the revision process of Directive 86/609/EEC as an opportunity to improve the Standards of Animal Welfare in European Laboratories and make replacing with Alternatives a priority. For contact details of your MEPs visit http://www.europarl.europa.eu If you want to do more:- Over 10,000 primates are used in experiments in Europe every year with the UK being Europe’s largest single user followed by France and Germany. Please write to the European Commission and ask them to ban primate tests. To help, a prepared letter can be found at http://www.eceae.org/saveprimates/en/action.html Please tell your friends and colleagues to do the same. More information on Animal Testing from http://www.peta.org/ http://www.buav.org For information on Revision of Directive 86/609/EEC http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/revision_en.htm Everyone can help and you can make a difference. Thank You Tony, Nottingham, England [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	Propose Real Global Warming Solutions! November 17, 2007 6:36 AM Tell Presidential Candidates to Propose Real Global Warming Solutions! It's about time American politicians stop paying lip service to global warming and start proposing real solutions! Our 2008 presidential candidates will have to deal with the greatest environmental problem we have ever faced. As citizens of a country that is one of the world's biggest polluters, we must make sure that they don't just talk about it, but actually have a detailed plan for combating it. An aggressive plan to combat global warming must include: Imposing a cap on CO2 emissions across the country and sticking to it, without special rules for rich companies. Increasing fuel efficiency standards dramatically for commuter vehicles as well as commercial trucks. Cleaning up our current electric and other power plants. Investing in alternative, cleaner energies such as wind power, and providing incentives for companies who develop and use these technologies. Please join Deepak Chopra today in telling the 2008 presidential candidates to make solutions to global warming a top priority. Signatures: 2,450 Goal: 50,000 Deadline: Ongoing... http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/173707626 [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	American Forests Launches Global ReLeaf2 Campaign November 18, 2007 6:58 AM American Forests Launches Global ReLeaf2 Campaign AMERICAN FORESTS LAUNCHES GLOBAL RELEAF2 CAMPAIGN WITH GOAL TO PLANT 100 MILLION TREES BY 2020. one of the first organizations to address the issue of global warming when it introduced Global ReLeaf in 1988 http://www.care2.com/news/member/577339509/544704 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	Have a Green & Healing Holiday This Year! November 21, 2007 5:22 AM What a wonderful gift we could be giving to all the Endangered Animals and Rainforest this year! Make Your Holiday Greener! Shop to save The Rainforest. Give back the life that we have been given. When you shop, shop where it matters! A great way also to combat Global Warming save Endangered Species and rainforest! http://www.care2.com/news/member/577339509/546604 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	Tree Free Paper :) November 24, 2007 3:54 AM Union Of Concerned Scientists GREENTIPS Tree Free Paper Tree-free production technology is better than ever. In developing countries, a third of the paper produced is already tree-free, according to U.N. estimates, and there is now a budding, if small, tree-free paper industry emerging in the West. http://www.care2.com/news/member/577339509/550192 [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	More Than A Billion Trees To Combat Climate Change November 28, 2007 6:07 PM More Than A Billion Trees To Combat Climate Change More than one billion trees were planted around the world in 2007, with Ethiopia and Mexico leading in the drive to combat climate change through new lush forest projects, a UN report said Wednesday. http://www.care2.com/news/member/577339509/554811 Keep believing! Keep Planting!!! [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	My Green Click December 07, 2007 4:24 AM My Green Click Visit this site to have a Tree planted for free now Thank you for your support! Please check your inbox for confirmation, so that a donation can be made. The issue of manmade global warming is a heated debate. Movie stars and politicians alike are putting the issue up for debate with movies like The 11th Hour and An Inconvenient Truth, but planting a tree is simply a good thing to do, like recycling. Trees are a beautiful natural resource and they happen to absorb carbon dioxide or CO2, a common greenhouse gas. With your help, we hope to have an impact on climate change and the world. Check your email for updates from MyGreenClick and more ways to conserve energy and protect the environment. - The MyGreenClick Team http://www.care2.com/news/member/577339509/563368 Please Note This Care2 News Story. Please Plant A Tree [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	Stop The U.S.A. from cutting funding for rainforest conservation December 09, 2007 4:33 AM Stop The U.S.A. from cutting funding for rainforest conservation Treasury Department will cut funding for the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA), the largest pool of U.S. government money exclusively for helping developing countries conserve threatened tropical forests, according to the Tropical Forest Group, a forest policy group based in Santa Barbara. http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/564419 Please Note this Care2 Story & Forward in your Network ACTIONS: Please Contact Your Senator by Mail, Phone and in Person. If you live in the USA, please contact your senator and let them konw this is not acceptible - request that they increase the proposed funding proposal from $20 million to $40 million and to sign on as a co-sponsor of the bill - find your senator here: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	Climate Change: What's Your Impact? December 16, 2007 3:13 AM Climate Change: What's Your Impact? Climate Change: What's Your Impact? Claculate your impact - and find out what you can do to lower it! http://www.care2.com/news/member/537645068/571408 [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mari B.	DENIALISM December 17, 2007 5:11 PM Denialism Denialism is the employment of rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in actuality there is none. These false arguments are used when one has few or no facts to support one's viewpoint against a scientific consensus or against overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They are effective in distracting from actual useful debate using emotionally appealing, but ultimately empty and illogical assertions. http://www.care2.com/news/member/577339509/574408 [ send green star] [ accepted]

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